Open Source Jobs in Cambridge

Open Source
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 44 75
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 -48
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 8 39 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 3.14% 3.93% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 4.76% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 6
10th Percentile - £67,500 £44,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £78,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +45.46% -
75th Percentile £121,250 £130,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £135,500 - £85,625
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £90,000 £80,001 £51,250
% change year-on-year +12.50% +56.10% -6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Open Source falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 240 819 964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 94.12% 82.48% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 144 622 400
10th Percentile £30,375 £32,500 £30,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,313
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.18% +1.85% +2.86%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Cambridge

Open Source
Salary Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Cambridge.

Salary trend for Open Source in Cambridge

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Cambridge over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Cambridge

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Bluetooth
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GDB
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) KGDB
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Junior
1 3 (37.50%) Site Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) OpenEmbedded
2 1 (12.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
1 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
1 3 (37.50%) Physics
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Team Management
1 3 (37.50%) Web Design
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Kernel Development
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware